Toddler Guide | Fiore Montessori School | Vienna, VA

Organization: Fiore Montessori School

Location of Position: 1629 Beulah Road, Vienna, VA

Job Title: Toddler Guide

Job Description: Toddler Guide position. Your role will be to lead your classroom environment with 12-15 toddlers ages 16mo to 3 years old. Your focus will be on normalizing your community, creating and maintaining your environment, managing your assistant and keeping your parent community engaged. Fiore is an AMI accredited school and has committed to upholding the AMI standards. You will be responsible to maintain this commitment in your classroom in every way.

Responsibilities:
We expect you to be responsible to normalize any community that you are a part of.
Be an ambassador to your parent community by modeling appropriate behavior and verbalizing Fiore / AMI philosophy.
We expect you to adhere to the AMI principles that you have been trained in and work with the school and AMI accreditation community to continue to develop the environment for children over the years.
Guide and normalize your child community by creating a beautiful environment. It will be your responsibility to envision and lead the way to prepare and maintain this environment. This means to model the behavior and inspire your team to follow your lead.
Be personally well groomed, organized and positive.
Observe and guide the learning and development of each child in your classroom community
Maintain lessons, observations and children’s records using Transparent Classroom or other means. Update information relevant to the child regularly.
Maintain orderly and organized closets, shelf tops, cabinets and online files.
Communicate as appropriate with the other guides, school administration, assistant staff, and parent community.
Participate in Parent education to help establish trust in AMI Montessori pedagogy. Focus both on structure in the classroom and any support at home to enable the parent to learn more about their child.
Manage your assistant/s through daily routines and tailored communication.
Clean, fix and replace materials in the classroom as needed, both indoors and outdoors, to entice the children.
Adhere to school policies and procedures as is outlined in the handbook.
Coordinate with the Administrative team to continue to grow our school and its reputation in the community

Requirements: - AMI Assistants to Infancy diploma
or
- Other Montessori diploma , experience in the classroom and willingness to train to become an AMI guide

- Excellent communicator and fluent in spoken and written English

- Team player and willing to go the extra mile to make the school successful.

How to Apply: Email staffing@fioremontessori.com. Attention - Donna Ferko (Director of HR)

We offer Montessori Training Sponsorships for this position.:Yes